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The town of Liverpool is too famous in 

 the trading world to allow me to pafs it 

 without viewing : I wanted to be informed 

 of a few particulars relative to the (hipping, 

 imports, exports, and rife and fall of their 

 commerce, a little of which I gained, tho' 

 by no means what I wilhed. I walked 

 over the town for a view of the publick 

 buildings, &c. the following are the mi- 

 nutes I took. 



The exchange is a quadrangular build- 

 ing furrounding a court, which is inclofed 

 by a double row of Tiifcan pillars, and over 

 them another of Corintkia?t ones ; but the 

 area is fo fnal], that it has more the ap- 

 pearance of a well than the court of an edi- 

 fice. In this building is the aflembly-room, 

 fixty-five feet by twenty-five, handfomely 

 fitted up ; but the mufic-gallery at one end 

 is a mere over-grown fhelf ; the common 

 blunder in nine alTembly- rooms out of 

 ten. The card room is prepofterous ; a 

 narrow flip of about eleven feet wide j fo 

 that LUlipiittan card tables muft be made 

 on purpofe for the room, or no paiTage re- 

 main around them for foedlators. From 

 the cupola on the top of the building is a 

 very fine view of the town. 



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